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“For The Birds” by The Juliana Hatfield Three
From the album Become What You Are (1993)
“For The Birds” by The Juliana Hatfield Three appears on 14 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2014. It was first released in 1993 on the album Become What You Are. Its best result is #1205 on the CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,842 alternative song of all time.
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Juliana Hatfield wrote "For the Birds" by herself, words and music, for Become What You Are, the Juliana Hatfield Three's debut, which Mammoth Records put out on August 3, 1993. Hatfield sang and played guitar on it, backed by drummer Todd Philips, who had played in Moving Targets and Bullet LaVolta, and bassist Dean Fisher, whom she'd met in high school in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Where her previous album, Hey Babe, had dealt in personal matters, this time she set out to write about other things and make the songs more universal, and the album's title was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche, a philosopher she admired. They cut it at Hollywood Sound and mixed it at Oceanway Studios, and it's the same record that carried the hit singles "My Sister" and "Spin the Bottle".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1217 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1218 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1221 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1220 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1205 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1205 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1205 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 1271 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1281 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1306 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1346 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1406 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1459 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1518 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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